"Wait..." Russell pleaded, her voice so faint it could not even stir the leaves. Magnus ignored her plea and merely watched as Leman Russ dealt more death with his fists.
"Please... stop..." Russell's heart could barely beat. Even though she had witnessed the reality of war in her youth, she could not accept the calamity Kazimierz was suffering now.
The Silverlance Pegasi, who had guarded the borders and won illustrious merits, were flung into the air like scraps of cloth. They did not even have time to scream before stumbling hastily into death.
The Rhodes Island operators also breathed in suppressed terror. The radiant Nearl lay dazed amid the shattered wreckage of a shop by the street, while her blood relative, Blemishine, could only helplessly watch it happen.
Platinum, once an assassin of the Armorless Union, even felt the urge to flee for her life. She could not imagine that the Silverlance Pegasi, who had suppressed more than thirty of them with only three men and left them scarcely daring to breathe, now died like expendable cannon fodder, without dignity or honor.
The entire street had been stained red with blood, yet Leman Russ, who had caused it all, had not shed a single drop of sweat. His frost-colored armor remained immaculate, forming a stark contrast with the filth on the street.
The Lord of the Space Wolves looked into the distance. Every Kazimierz citizen who had witnessed the slaughter avoided his sharp gaze. They drew their curtains, even fled the rooms facing the street altogether, and found dim corners where they suppressed the terror welling up within them.
"More are coming." Feeling the tremors through the ground, Leman Russ knew that another knight order had answered Russell's command and arrived belatedly. He rolled his wrist and strode forward... which